Harry Kane at the double as Tottenham brush aside West Ham

A double from Harry Kane, who scored in his fifth consecutive club match, inspired Tottenham Hotspur to a 4-1 win over London rivals West Ham United in the Premier League at White Hart Lane on Sunday. Late on, Manuel Lanzini got a consolation on the break but it did not affect a very happy atmosphere.

Part of Spurs’ success comes from their grass-roots efforts, with the CIES Football Observatory reporting that Tottenham have developed more current Premier League players than any other club. With him gone, Tottenham’s pressure was constant: West Ham was forced to make clearances, not passes, without their key outlet.

“Hopefully we have got rid of that label because it is not a nice label to have”, he said.

“Maybe you need to wait two hours at the airport and for us, it’s better to go straight after the game and get to England as soon as possible, and give maybe Friday off for recovery”.

“For us to try to win the title maybe we need more”.

Son drew a smart save from Adrian and Alli headed the rebound against the bar then Kane fluffed his lines when clean through as Spurs threatened to wrap the game up before the half-time whistle.

Kane, who has scored 12 goals in 14 London derbies, branded the display Spurs best of the season and Pochettino said: “It was a high-level performance”. In the frenzied opening period, Dier’s physicality, aggression and intelligence helped Spurs come out on top. There are a lot of things in his head.

You thought it might have been a home banker but they didn’t create as many chances as they normally do and didn’t play the fast and fluent football they can. It is hard to say today what will happen in four or five months.

“Considering the wonderful start to the season we had away from home, our last two performances against Watford and Spurs have been poor in comparison”.

In a statement on West Ham’s website, Sullivan also warned manager Slaven Bilic that West Ham’s results must improve after the “extremely disappointing” outcome at Tottenham.

La Marseillaise played out around White Hart Lane before kick-off in tribute to the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks and there was a moving show of support from the Spurs fans towards their goalkeeper and France captain Hugo Lloris. On the same day West Ham United will look to bounce back when West Bromwich Albion are the visitors to Upton Park (2pm). Subs not used: Michel Vorm, Kieran Trippier, Andros Townsend, Ben Davies.

Noble pointed towards a pivotal moment in the match on Sunday when Cheikhou Kouyate acrobatically hit the bar, an equaliser at that moment and the game could have gone either way.